River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-20
WISCONSIN NEWS.

WISCONSIN NEWS.
Hattie A. Mott has secured divorce
from Arthur Mott, at GAINESVILLE.
One days receipts of gherkins at
Palmyra amounted to 927 bushels
There is a town in Wisconsin that
bears the truly western name of Dry
Bones.
The Central Wisconsin medical asso-
citation held its session at the capitol at
Madison.
A son of Lyman Abbott. ID. D.. of
New York, is first assistantin the BelOit
high school.
1t is estimated that the recent rise in
the Black river brought $4,000 feet
of logs down to La Crosse.
The fall sessions of the Wisconsin
conference of Unitarians and indepen-
dent societies were held at Arcadia,
October 4-6.
Eight hundred persons attended the
recent celebration of the silver wedding
of Mr.. and Mrs. Balschneider, of She
boygan Falls.
A gentleman who has hunted on the
Horizon marsh for the past Is years
says that there are more ducks this sea-
son than ever before.
The city OF Amigo has sent a COM
mittee to Oshkosh to negotiate the sale
of $4,000 worth of bonds to pay for her
public improvements.
Fears are entertained at Madison
that D. r. Jones, the architect, and his
wife were lost in the burning of the
theatre at Exeter. England.
The Northwestern Lumberman pre-
diets that pinery laborers will be scarce
this winter, and that wages will be
higher than for some time.
William Burns, keeper of restaurant
at kaukauna, is under bonds of
charge of burglary. A merchant named
A. w. Finnegan is the accuser.
Deaths at GAINESVILLE: Mrs. Sarah
Constable, widow of w. J. Constable,
veteran of the Mexican war; Mary j.
Packham and Timothy McCue.
+. Kemmerer will gather nearly 800
bushels of apples from his ten-acre or
ehard in Turtle, Rock county. He has
some thirty varieties of fall and winter
fruit.
Chas. j. Bruycre has sued the city of
Waupun for $1,000 as the amount of
damage he sustained by falling from a
horse, on account of defective cross
walk
The Ashland Press says that outside
of Milwaukee there is no place whose
business interests so imperatively de-
mand United States court as those of
that city.
! A daily mail is to be established be-
tween Chiffon and Stockbridge. The
people prefer daily mail to Fond du
Lac, taking in Stockbridge, Brotherton
and Calumet.
While boring a we'll at Eureka a solid
substance sixty feet down was struck
that caused suspension of work, and the
dirt brought up revealed the existence
of pure copper.
The tax commissioners have reduced
Appleton's apportionment from So TO
go per cent, and the city thus receives
rebate from the county on last years
tax of So, 4S6.07.
j The Waukesha journal reports that
twelve carloadsof Montana sheep were
unloaded at Mukwonago. recently. and
are finding pasturage at different places
around that village.
John Kelly was sentenced by the
circuit court at Barron to eight years
in Waupun for an attempted criminal
assault upon the 7-year-old daughter
of F. A. Wright, at Cumberland.
The aggregate product of cheese of
Green county is larger this year than
last, Notwithstanding the drought. Dur
ing the past three months $4,000
pounds have been shipped from Monroe
alone.
AT Milwaukee sixteen pickpockets,
who were captured while plying their
lawless trade in the crowds which con-
gregated during President Cleveland's
visit, are behind the bars at the police
( station.
Squire Waterbury raised 100 bushels
of good wheat on five acres, and A. r.
/ Earl threshed it out in an hour. Rather
/ good record for both. Mr.. Waterbury
thinks he owes a good crop to salt used
upon the land.
4 Ematosh Boyer accidentally discharg-
ed both barrels of his gun while hunt
| ing near WauboO, Price county. The
charges blew off his head and passed
into his abdomen, almost completely
disemboweling him.
The barn of Luther Green, of Paoli.
was struck by lightning and burned TO
the ground. Eleven horses and four
sets of harness were consumed. The
total loss is about $500; insured for
one-half that amount.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
| has been obliged to raise a pole ninety
feet high on the west side of the river
at Berlin in order that the wire across
the stream may be above passing
steamers and dredges.
Berlin presents good school oppor-
tunities, and yet, The Journal says, of
the 1886 pupils of school age found in
the city by the enumerator and for
whom they draw public money, 597
were not in school last year.
A girl answering the description of
Theresa futile, of Wood county. who
is supposed to have been murdered, re-
Gently arrived in Manitowoc. She
gives her home as Wood county. She
is employed as a domestic.
Frank Edwards, the man who vi
ciously stabbed Ben Daley at Milwau-
kee, four weeks ago, had his prelimi-
nary examination in the Police Court
Friday and was held for trial, his
bail being fixed at $4,000.
The Waukesha National Bank was
the highest bidder for the $11.O0) of
school bonds issued by district No. Of
the city of Waukesha, having offered
$11,025. The most favorable bid Wa
S11 900. The bonds draw interest at !